Posted
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Soulskill
on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @04:45PM
from the don't-drink-and-warp-drive dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "We may not have Saurian Brandy or Romulan Ale, but we'll soon have Klingon Beer. Tin Man Brewing Company in Evansville, Indiana has gotten the OK from CBS to create 'Klingon Warnog,' a Dunkelweizen with 'a modern aroma [of] predominantly mild banana and clove.' It will have an ABV of 5.5%. The Klingon beer will apparently join Vulcan Ale in the Federation of Beer. I wonder what their Prime Directive is."

It's Heineken, you insensitive clod. Not that that makes it taste any better, but we have plenty of perfectly drinkable beers unlike the USA that has a choice between Bud light and Coors, or the Aussies that have to deal with the monopoly of Fosters.....

"perfectly drinkable beers unlike the USA that has a choice between Bud light and Coors"

If you aren't familiar with our culture let me enlighten you a little bit:We do have American brewed beers, but those are just for guests. However, we, probably more than any country, sell all the beer.

We have entire warehouse-sized stores that stock nothing but different varieties of beer. There is probably one in every county. Then we have liquor stores which also (in many places) carry a large variety of beer..3 on ev

The past few years have also seen a great increase in microbreweries. Near where I live, there is one that makes some very amazing flavors, and some great full bodied selections. Not everyone in the US drinks Bud Light or Coors.. that stuff you can pour back in the horse!

I expect something more like the taste of smoked roasted wild boar and a fine note of decaying fish (SÃ¼rstrÃming) for the fine taste!

Fortified with the blood of your slain enemies...

Honestly, this is about as worthless as Bad Frog Beer, the beer they felt they had to make, because the T-shirt of the frog appearing to give the middle digit, was selling so well and people asked about the fictional beer. The beer could be Bud, Pearl, Coors or just about anything else.

Seriously, they are calling this a "Klingon" beer and it's only 5.5% ABV. This should be in the 9%-10% range at least! And an aroma of cloves and banana!?! Give me a break! It should have a bitter hoppy flavor, maybe with a bit of metallic taste to be reminiscent of freshly spilled blood!

Why do you think toughness equates to alcohol tolerance? oh, right, you have a small mind.Considering Warnog has a flavor so complex it can't be replicated perfectly, AND Klingon have heightened sense compared to humans, it is likely to have less alcohol.

Why do you think toughness equates to alcohol tolerance? oh, right, you have a small mind.Considering Warnog has a flavor so complex it can't be replicated perfectly, AND Klingon have heightened sense compared to humans, it is likely to have less alcohol.

accept in the ds9 episode where O'Brien, Worf, Sisko, and Odo, infiltrat a Klingon ceremony to catch a changing it is mentioned that O'Brian Sisko and Odo would of died of alcohol poisoning if not for an injection they were given to neutralize the alcohol. Also in TNG there is an episode where Worf replicates a Klingon beverage for some refugees they are rescuing after they complain about the federation alcohol being to weak, and it is shown to be much stronger. So the Klingons can metabolize higher amounts of alcohol and thus probably drink more consternated beverages.

It seems reasonable to infer from the intoxicating effects of Bloodwine [memory-alpha.org] which is guzzled not sipped from dainty thimbles, that Warnog should be far from lacking in potency and certainly well in excess of 10%. It also dispels your assertion of Klingons being lightweights. I'd argue the flavor choice probably doesn't make much sense either, but I really don't have any canonical references to support that one way or the other.

From Memory Alpha: "it was not for the faint of heart. Bloodwine was known to be highly intoxicating, to the point that most non-Klingons were scarcely capable of tolerating it; it was twice as potent as whiskey"

Why do you think toughness equates to alcohol tolerance? oh, right, you have a small mind.
Considering Warnog has a flavor so complex it can't be replicated perfectly, AND Klingon have heightened sense compared to humans, it is likely to have less alcohol.

Dude, seriously, why so keen to throw insults around at anyone who doesn't fit your strict world image of the universe according to geekoid? No, he doesn't have a small mind for pointing out the classical cultural staple that tough machismo guys can drink, Hollywood's been depicting that image for decades.
In any case, 5.5% IS, on the whole, on the light side, even by human standards. The English ales I like are are least 7, 8 %, or higher. Wine is nearly double that. I would expect an alien race that en

Dunkelweisen is a beer made with wheat. The reason for the wheat is to make a beer with less of a malty flavor, which means less hops are needed to balance this bland tasteless beer. This is the craft brewers version of light beer. Give me a break.

We used to have a cocktail back in my university days called "The Vulcan Mind Probe" . . . that was more like 155%. I remember that there was grain alcohol and peppermint schnapps in it, but I don't remember what else was in it.

And frankly, after drinking that, no one really remembers very much anyway.

Seriously, "Dunkelweizen" is just plain wrong, no German would call it that horrendous word.The proper wording is "dunkles Weizen(bier)" == "dark wheat (beer)".5.5% is not even strong, that's more on the light side; usally this flavour starts at 5.5%, and no beer has below 5.0%.7% to 7.5% would be a proper alcohol level!